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Lawrence Santoro

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http://www.goodreads.com/Santoro

born

September 02, 1942 in Reading, Pennsylvania, The United States

gender

male

website

http://blufftoninthedriftless.blogspot.com/

genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction

influences

Ray Bradbury, Dylan Thomas, William Faulkner, and dozens more

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March 2008

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I started writing when I was five. I won a playground storytelling contest when I was 8. More recently I got two nominations for the Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writers Association: In 2001, my novella "God Screamed and Screamed, Then I Ate Him" was the first. In 2002, I adapted, produced and directed an audio version of Gene Wolfe's "The Tree Is My Hat." The show had Neil Gaiman in the cast and the script for "Tree..." was my second Stoker nod. Fun, but not as much as the playground contest. As story supervisor and associate producer of the TV series, "Hyde & Seeke," I wrote, directed and supervised production throughout the half-hour series' first season. That was fun! In 2003 "Catching," was Stoker 'Recommended' - means I didn't...more

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Marting Mundt and Lawrence Santoro Together Again At Long Last

Time for some self-absorbed chestbeating and unabashed bookselling. Martin Mundt and I are doing a two-hour, round-robin, sudden-death reading here in Chicago. I'll be doing nothing but DRINK FOR THE THIRST TO COME. Well maybe a touch of the new novel, A MISSISSIPPI TRAVELER, OR SAM CLEMENS TRIES THE WATER, just to test-fly it. The poster tells all. If you're in Chicago, I hope you'll stop by... read more »

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Books by Lawrence Santoro

Average rating: 4.60 · 53 ratings · 15 reviews · 9 distinct works

	Just North of Nowhere 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Lord Dickens's Declaration 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Drink for the Thirst to Come 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Slices of Flesh by Stan Swanson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eric J. Guignard (Goodreads Author), Jack Ketchum 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	American Wasteland: Bleak Tales of the Future on the Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 by Jason Pettus (Editor), Ray Charbonneau (Goodreads Author), Lawrence Santoro (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Tales from the Red Lion by Andrea Dubnick (editor), John Weagly (Goodreads Author) (editor), Richard Chwedyk 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Cthulhu and the Coeds or Kids and Squids by Tina L. Jens (editor), Martin Mundt (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Lawrence Santoro (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Blood and Donuts by Tina L. Jens (editor), Jay Bonansinga, Edo Van Belkom 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Freaks, Geeks and Sideshow Floozies by Tina L. Jens (editor), Martin Mundt (Goodreads Author), Jo Fletcher 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002	My rating:

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A WORD FROM THE WORLD (Literature & Fiction)

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Description: World War II. Father has left. The snow comes. So does a word from the outside world.

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Lawrence made a comment in the group Literary Horror — Tales to Terrify need voices...reader's and writers' topic "Tales to Terrify is looking for voices. We're a weekly, horror-themed podcast, by the way at http://talestoterrify.com/ I am reminded by our producer,...more "
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Lawrence gave to: Slices of Flesh by Stan Swanson (Goodreads Author) read in February, 2012	My rating:
Up front, I'm one of the 90 or so authors of this book. Even so, if I didn't think the book was worth every penny I wouldn't recommend it. As it is, SLICES... is an incredible collection of tiny delights and chilly terrors by some of the finest autho...more
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Lawrence said "yes" to attending the event: Stella Espresso Symposium Series date: April 13, 2012 07:30AM location: Stella Espresso Cafe, Chicago, IL, 1259 West Devon, Chicago, IL, The United States description: Martin Mundt and I will be reading from and discussing our various published and unpublished books, stories, notions and whims...
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